Oh, hey. Hi.

I don't get over here as much as I'd like to nowadays...I do miss it. Tumblr makes me sad and angry, but since it seems like that's where fandom goes now, I'm trying.

Anyway, here are other places I've been lurking about, if anyone wants to reconnect:

tumblr: windsorblue17 (fandoms I'm following there: Agents of SHIELD; Star Wars; some GW)
twitter: @windsorblue03 (where there's a lot of bitching about politics...)
eljay (occasionally): windsorblue
AO3: windsorblue

That's all I got.

Hi, I'm still alive. Very, very tired, but still alive. The magazine project that was at Kickstarter a couple of months ago has funded, and so now there's much work to be done. Much work. So hooray for some extra walking-around money, but wow am I tired. Funny how your well-over-40 self cannot pull off the late nights as well as your 20-something self did. If you're interested in the magazine, please do go check it out!

Now that soccer season has ended at school, the boy has joined the track team and is starting up with a club soccer team (outside of school). There was a parent meeting for the track team last week, and the handout the coach gave us included this phrase: "Most of our athletes will need to consume 2500-4000 calories per day." O.o;; So...I just give the kid a bag of Doritos and a cheesecake for breakfast, then? In all seriousness, though, we have reached the stage where his lunch bag is pretty much just a grocery bag full of food. So glad he's not big on sodas.

New Clone Wars episodes on Netflix this week! Although I suspect that the characters I wanted to see better endings for aren't getting them. :/

Speaking of Netflix - I started watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I had never really sat down and watched the whole thing - just a few episodes here and there. So now I'm trying to do the whole thing. I'm a few episodes into S5, and I know there's about to be horrible senseless trauma, because I am a human person who participates in geek culture, and therefore has a decent outline of the plot going in. Pretty sure it's still going to be horrible and senseless, though, since Gilles and Joyce are kind of my ship for this show. I'm probably responding a lot more to the adult characters because I'm watching it from a parent point-of-view. All that said, though, I'd like to state that I deeply dislike Angel, and it's probably because my inner mother-of-teenager is going "What? Him? NO. NO, I FORBID IT. YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER."

See? Tired.

tl/dr: Hi, I'm still alive.

I've been freelancing for a small tabletop gaming company lately, and they are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to launch a bi-monthly magazine that will feature new science fiction and a pull-out tabletop game in every issue. The Kickstarter campaign is here.

If this thing takes off, we'll be taking ongoing submissions for stories and art. Mostly hard sci-fi or speculative fiction - submission guidelines are here.

(I will have no say in what gets published, story-wise, but I thought some of you guys would be interested in taking a look!)

The wreath is hung on the door, but I forgot to change out the orange and purple Halloween lights for the blue and white ones. >.>;;

The tree is up, but one little bit of a light strand doesn't work. I could have spent more time futzing with it, but got distracted by something else and there we are.

The presents are wrapped and the stockings filled, now that I got everyone to go the hell to bed and let Santa mom do her work. Starbuck has found this quite confusing, as there are obviously things in a stocking that are intended for her - none of us two-legs have ever shown an interest in candy-cane shaped rawhides, that's for damn sure - and she can't have them yet. She keeps sniffing hopefully at the stockings, and I keep telling her that Santa says she has to wait until tomorrow. I think my dog thinks Santa is a big meanie.

Next year, I say to myself, I will be one of those people who is done shopping by Thanksgiving. (I will not be one of those people.)

(Since the soccer season is now in full swing, the boy has 2+ hours of practice most days and is typically passed out on the couch before his dinner has even started digesting. Tonight - after me poking him about four times to go sleep in his bed already - he said, "I'm waiting up for Santa," to which the beau replied, "You're not waiting up very well".)

Happy holidays, everyone!! Here's to a wonderful new year full of blessings and awesome organizational skills to us all!

I know this is a bit last month, but I wanted to post about something involving creativity as an act, rather than a parenting philosophy. So! Want to see the fake sword I made for Halloween? The theme for my friend's Halloween party this year was Dungeons and Dragons.

( pictures below, still kind of a work in progress even though Halloween has come and gone )

So that's that. My next bout of creativity will involve window treatments. Yay?

I really should be in bed because I need to be up in like five hours to get the kid to school early so he can get help with his programming homework. But I needed to offload some of this brain buzzing first.

( I know it's stress because my jaw hurts from being clenched )

Okay, I feel better now that I got some of that out. I'll post fannish things next time, because Agents of SHIELD gave me a new OTP this week that I need for someone else to love as much as I do.

So the boy and his X-Box buddies have started using "PR0N" as a clan tag. I raised an eyebrow at it when it came up, but have pretty much left it alone because I figured if I made a big deal about it, he'd just keep it on there longer, because teenager. Sunday when his friend was over and they were playing on X-Box Live, someone asked what it meant. Much Beavis and Butthead-style giggling ensued.

"Yeah, buddy," says I, all sarcastical-like. "What does 'PR0N' mean?

More teen boy laughing. "Guys, my mom wants to know what it means..."

"Tell her it's Chinese!"

"Yeah, yeah - mom, it's Chinese. You wouldn't understand."

"Chinese, huh..." says I. "That's funny, because according to the internet, it means 'porn'"

"Uhhhhhh..."

"Look, I don't know how dumb you think I am, but let me assure you, I'm not that dumb."

Tell her it's Chinese...for Christ's sake...doesn't this kid know who I am?

Welp, Twitter was being kind of crappy about letting me post pictures on the fly, so. Many images under the cut.

( assorted pics from Comic-Con 2013 )

I didn't get into the SHIELD panel, and I didn't even try to get into Hall H for anything at all. But we did see panels for Person of Interest, Falling Skies, and Revolution. Most of the others I went to were either semi-professional advice panels on design and creative careers or girl geek panels. The boy and his friend pretty much haunted anything gaming-related and were excited about the panels on Assassin's Creed 4 and Watchdogs. And I saw driftingdoll! :D

Goal for next year: train for this like it's a marathon, and then maybe my feet won't hurt so much by the end.

I wrote this during the Stanley Cup playoffs and have been too chickenshit to post it. >.>;; Congrats, Blackhawks. We'll get you next year.


( sportsball on ice, then... )